Quill-treating machine.



PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906.

F. HOLDRED. QUILL TREATING MACHINE.

APPLIONIION FILED 00T.13 1905.

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PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906.

F. HOLDRED. QUILL TREATING MACHINE.

APPLIGAT'ION FILED 0020.13, 1905.

s SHEETSQSHEET 2 No. 823,122. PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906.

' F. HOLDRED.

QUILL TREATING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 002.13, 1905.

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III-III! UNITED sTA r s PATENT oFFreE.

FRANK HOLDRED, OF THREE OAKS, MlOl-IIGAN WARREN, OF THREE OAKS ASSIGXOR TO EDWARD l\'. MICHIGAN.

QUlLL-TREATING MACHINE.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1906.

Application filed October 13, 1905. Serial No. 282,648.

commercially known as featherbone, a

substance designed to fill the office of flexible resilient stays in connection with various classes of dress goods. In the treatment of such quills the quill is first split and then thoroughly stripped of its contained pith, after which the split sections of the quills thus cleaned are fiberedthat is, further split longitudinally into a number of thin narrow slivers or fibers lying side by side,

I with the end portions of successive bunches it a uniformity ung mechanism pable of certain and umtorm act of fibers overlapped and intermixed, so as to create a continuous line'of substantially uniform caliber, to'which is ap z-lied a winding or covering of other material to mechanically bind the fibers together. 'lhereal'ter the strip thus created is specially treated to givc of structure and strength, wlnle reserving the natural elastic quality or resi iency of the original material.

y present invention relates to an organized machine for cll'ecting all of the abovedescribed operations, with the excc aion of thejinal special treatment, to secure uni formity of structure and strength and preservethe elastic quality, and pertains more especially to improvements in the means for op.- crating the cutters which strip the pith from the split quills, said improvenwnis having for their object to eliminate slip in the. drivand to produce a machine eaion through the employment of positive driving means for the said cutters.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved quill-treating mar-him. Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the main table or platform, showing the main line-shaft carrying wdriving means for the pith-(mtters, iibering devices, and winding-rec s;

I will first briefly describe the main parts and mechamsms ot' the machine that directly treat the quills which my pres Referring to and will then describe those parts of the driving mechanisms therefor to cut improvements pertain. the drawings, 5 designates a rectangular horizontal table or pl att orm, supported at its four corners on legs 6.

' 7 designates a horizontal bed-plate supported upon and above the table 5 on standards 8.

9 designates of the bed-plat aboriZontal lateral extension c 7, on winch 1S mount-ed the quill-feeding mechanism comprising, essentially, two pairs of guide-rods 10 and 11 and a slotted guide-post 12, between which the quills are stacked, as

being pressed overlying resser-bar 14.

its lower end therethrough,

shownat 13, said uills dmvnwardly, by a weighted The post 12 has at an aperture 12*, extending (indicated bydotted lines in Fig. 1,) through which the quills of theslaek asthey successively reach t sition are. fed by a the nip of ano rated on opposite the grip of said upon the point the quill is spl 1e lowermost popair of feed-disks-15 inlo ther pair of feed-rolls 16, lo-

sides of the post. From rolls the quill passes directly of a knife-blade 17, whereby it longitudinally into halves.

One of these halves making a turn of substantially a rigl and fed between pamon iced-roll l the periphery o guide-block 20, cut t or.

other feed-disk 1t angle to the right is engaged the feed-roll 16 and a com- S, whence lipasses between i a rotary cutter-disk 19 and at opposite the periphery of said On the opposite side or the knife 17 is a teed-disk 21,

that cooperates with the 16 to carry forward the lefthand half ol" the spht quill into the lield of action oi" a rotary guide-block 23.

The mechanisms thus far lying on opposi cut [er 22, cooper-a1 ing with a described as to sides of the knife are duplicates and werlorm similar operations upon the split ha ves clean it of its (1 the cutters 1S) and .22.

of the quill, their function bemg to advance the latter and lhorou 1'hl mtained pith b the action of The cutter-disks rolate in the same direction as the travel of the quill-sect ions, peripheral teell bod) ol tiill (t From the pit passes through being provided with oblique 1, which ell'eeluallv eat out the mlained in each hall-shell.

h-eutlers 1%) a clean hallshell a. tubular guide-channel 24 to guide 28, so disposed relatively to the 001R? pa-nion guide 24 as to form with the latter convergent paths for the two cleaned shells to merge at the dischsrgin ends of the guides into the sip of the feed-rol s 25, one seetioh of quill lzeisg s half-length in advance of the other, so that said sections always overlap end ores-l: joints. From the feed-rolls 25. the cleaned helfi-shells of the quillpass into and througha further tubules nd; 29, located beyond the feed-rolls 25, wit its longitudinal axis substantially tangential to the contaob ing peripheries oi said feed-rolls Thence the quills travel; into and though a libezing ering mechanism, (indicated at 3.0,)

ting, essentially, of two stacks of cutters'hsving overlapping edges on their proxisides, by which the quills are split into or slivers. The bundle of quill-stool; is divided as it emerges from the split- ,rs hito smaller bundles, which are directed, iespeotiveiy, into 9. series'oi wimling meol'isnisms, (indicated as 9. whole by 31;)03

which iinzliog-oord or thread is wrapped,

around said bundles, thus forming a series of oontmuous wrapped cords or thresds. 32; of hhered stoek. These cords 32 are wound upon a series of reels. 33, that are in tum mounted ft iotionslly spoil a shaft 34, joinsoled in arms 35, projeoting from the table of platform 5 The holds 32 are laid on the reels by suitable reoiproostory guide-pulleys 36, mounted on e shsfit 37 and reoiprooatim sever by a. traveler engaging the usudl spiral (not shown) "formed on the The pithwutters i9 and 22- ere mounted on the u ends of vertical shafts 38'ond 39 respects; 3., ere suit-ably joursoled LQ as had-piste 7, while one of the se ries of'iiheriii -disks.forming part of the quillfihering sehsnism is mounted on the upper end of s. s -aft 4U, joiszisled in both the upper bed-ole 7 and the lower'hed-plate or platform Mounted in horizontal hearings. l and. e'iZ, Fig. 3 on the lower bed-plate or platform 5 the main line-shaft 4.3 of the meshine, .corrying at its overhangingend,

.I nay be the same.

than the similar gears 47 and 49.; but the same proportions are preserved between the two sets of cooperatin gears order that; the speed of rotation o the two pith-cutters Of course were the cuttershafts 38 and 39 located the same distance from and laterally of the main line-shaft said gears-would be identical in size to produce the same speed of rotation in the two cuttershefts. v e

' From the foregoing it will be seen that I provide a direct and positive drive between 1, the main line-shaft 43. and the outteoshsfts, which obviates the slip theta frequently i in belt and pulley driyisg means and does 1 awsywith themaeessity ofhelmension devices and issues-a of the cutter-s site or ,ortiosel to-the speed sitive and. uniform rotation of rotation the main ine or dsiivirigshaft, This a great edventage i'nfamaehine ofi-this diameter, wherein the uniformity aged value of theproduct is dependent upon the moire tenanee oi the predetermined proper relative movements and speeds 0? the several. cooper 'etiv m hasisms looking up the' omp iete machine. The. Nth-craters. he driven at amesy high rate. of speed, Sekth as is usually" secured through use of? belt. sod pulley or other frictions}? som see; lost E have diseoyered the?) la) the use of de' scribed ohliqueor spire geese the reqirired high rate of may be attained seed memtained with absolute relishility sod Without any slip and yield in the meehssisms- Efiflihf l I v 1... In a quilt-treating meehine,..tl1e eom-ht notion with, a suitable fizainesnd a main drivirig-shaft journaled thereim, of: epith-cutter,

a rotatable shaft on which said pithwiitteris mounted, and spiral driving-gears between said mails shaft. and cutter=shaft, substw tislly as ,desoriibedf.

2. In a quilltreeting meehine, the'comibination.- with it suitable h'om amd s. maindhriw hig-shat horizontally journal-ed thereto, of a pithcutter, 3.. verticalrotatable shsft on which saidpith out'tor is mounted, end spiral driyii-g-geers hetweenyssiid Ins-in shoft arid Cthll'teB-Sifilfiifi, sobstshtislly dese-liibed.

In a quillweating machine; the semis nstionwith a, stiitehle frame, and a main dewing-shsft horizontally journaled therein, of means for splitting a. longitudinall & pair of pith-cutters; serving to clean the split sections of the quill, vertical rotatable shafts sorihed.

. FRANK H@L)RED-' Witnesses:

FEED Emile-ER, MARY A. DAVIDSON. 

